How can I open Windows Explorer to a certain directory from within a WPF app

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In a WPF application  when a user clicks on a button I want to open the Windows explorer to a certain directory  how do I do that   I would expect something like this   Windows OpenExplorer  c  test

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Why not Process Start   c  test

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Process Start  explorer exe      C  Users      I had to use this  the other way of just specifying the tgt dir would shut the explorer window when my application terminated

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This should work   Process Start    lt directory goes here gt      Or if you d like a method to run programs open files and or folders   private void StartProcess string path        ProcessStartInfo StartInformation   new ProcessStartInfo         StartInformation FileName   path       Process process   Process Start StartInformation        process EnableRaisingEvents   true      And then call the method and in the parenthesis put either the directory of the file and or folder there or the name of the application  Hope this helped

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You can use System Diagnostics Process Start    Or use the WinApi directly with  something like the following  which will launch explorer exe  You can use the fourth parameter to ShellExecute to give it a starting directory   public partial class Window1   Window       public Window1                 ShellExecute IntPtr Zero   open    explorer exe           ShowCommands SW NORMAL           InitializeComponent               public enum ShowCommands   int               SW HIDE   0          SW SHOWNORMAL   1          SW NORMAL   1          SW SHOWMINIMIZED   2          SW SHOWMAXIMIZED   3          SW MAXIMIZE   3          SW SHOWNOACTIVATE   4          SW SHOW   5          SW MINIMIZE   6          SW SHOWMINNOACTIVE   7          SW SHOWNA   8          SW RESTORE   9          SW SHOWDEFAULT   10          SW FORCEMINIMIZE   11          SW MAX   11             DllImport  shell32 dll        static extern IntPtr ShellExecute          IntPtr hwnd          string lpOperation          string lpFile          string lpParameters          string lpDirectory          ShowCommands nShowCmd       The declarations come from the pinvoke net website

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